Knowledge Quotes

From ancient scholars to modern scientists, these quotes explore what it means to learn and to know.

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"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."
The Prophet (Almustafa)
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"One understands only the things that one tames."
The Fox
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"Words are obstacles to understanding."
Siddhartha
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"There is no greater delight than to understand the world."
Govinda
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"I am learning to listen better. The world speaks to those who will truly hear it."
Siddhartha
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"Perfect understanding comes only through experience."
Siddhartha
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"I have studied human nature for sixty years."
Justice Wargrave
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"Knowledge that leads not to action is a disease."
The Prophet (Almustafa)
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"There is a language in the world that everyone understands"
The Alchemist
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"Foreknowledge cannot be gained from ghosts and spirits, inferred from phenomena, or projected from the measures of Heaven, but must be gained from men who know about the enemy situation."
Sun Tzu
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"It took me a long time to learn where she came from."
The Little Prince
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"The human mind seeks patterns even where none exist."
Justice Wargrave
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"The body is a great intelligence, a plurality with one sense."
Zarathustra
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"Thou hast small eyes; therefore dost thou believe in small truths."
Zarathustra
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"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them"
The Alchemist
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"I can interpret dreams, and I can teach you to understand them"
Santiago
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"The best ideas are common property."
Seneca
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"Knowing that you are ignorant is a great first step toward learning."
Seneca
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"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."
Zarathustra
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"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book."
Henry David Thoreau
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"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles."
Sun Tzu
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"Victory is determined by the side that has more and better information."
Sun Tzu
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"Know the ground, know the weather, know yourself, know your enemy."
Sun Tzu
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"Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom."
Siddhartha
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"What is evil? Ignorance."
Seneca
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"Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom."
Govinda
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"To know is to be guilty."
Justice Wargrave
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"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy."
Zarathustra
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"The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimension."
Henry David Thoreau
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"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles"
Sun Tzu